https://noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Category_talk:Natural_languages&feed=atom&action=historyCategory talk:Natural languages - Revision history2015-08-02T22:53:00ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.19.1https://noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Category_talk:Natural_languages&diff=26146&oldid=prevEric Vinyl: Created page with 'I’m not quite satisfied with this category name but I stuck with it in deference to what seems to be existing convention (for example Taki Pona was mentio…'2012-06-17T09:26:27Z<p>Created page with &#039;I’m not quite satisfied with this category name but I stuck with it in deference to what seems to be <a href="/wiki/Natural_languages" title="Natural languages">existing convention</a> (for example Taki Pona was mentio…&#039;</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>I’m not quite satisfied with this category name but I stuck with it in deference to what seems to be [[natural languages|existing convention]] (for example Taki Pona was mentioned in the [[Meeting Notes 2009 03 17#Regular Happenings|meeting notes]] under the heading of “natural language”). This is important especially in a hackerspace, to differentiate these languages from, say, programming languages, like COBOL or C++. However, strictly speaking (and hackers are nothing if not precise) ''natural languages'' would exclude anyone who wants to start an Esperanto group at Noisebridge. I find this nomenclature problematic for the following reasons:<br />
* “Natural languages”: Excludes constructed languages, such as Interlingua, Láadan or Lojban<br />
* “Spoken languages”: Excludes signed languages and languages that may be only used for reading and writing, such as Latin<br />
* “Human languages”: Excludes conlangs purportedly for non-human communication, such as Sindarin, Na’vi, Klingon and Huttese<br />
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Some possibilities I also considered were ''communication languages'' (is the computer not being communicated with through a programming language, though?) and ''informal language'' (in contrast to “formal languages”). If anyone has any better suggestions that would encompass all the above-mentioned classes of languages, please mention it here. --Eric Vinyl</div>Eric Vinyl